can i graft a fruit cherry tree to a wild cherry tree?
thecityman, Zone 7a/6b near Nashville
10 years ago
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With a dwarf-root stock (colt), can I graft Wild Black Cherry?
Comments (1)I'll bet you can- but that's no guarantee. I mention from time to time my experiment grafting a prune plum to Nanking cherry (prunus tomentosa). It's entering its third year and appears to be healthy but quite dwarfed. We'll see what it does this year and next, if there is a next. Stone fruits often are compatible, but even so, there can be issues of delayed incompatibility, so you might not have your final answer for years. But I want to hazard a guess and a possible objection to your plan: it might work better to graft a more developed plant to a more primitive plant than the other way around, and it might work better to graft to a "forebear" than to a "cousin". In other words, I'm guessing that the wild host plant might work as a rootstock to more than one descendant but the reverse might not be true, and while two different fruits might graft to a common descendant they might not be cross compatible! i'm just thinking aloud on this- anybody actually know? I'd like to know. Good luck, and thanks! :-)M...See MoreTransplanting a cherry tree, and grafting onto it.
Comments (16)Okay I dug it up and moved the whole smaller tree. I thought I would get dirt with the roots but it didn't work out so well. I got bare roots. I got a root sections about eighteen inches with a bunch of hairy little roots kind of like you would see if you scaled up a little root graft picture. I should have taken a picture sorry. I have some 1/2" dia roots cut. I put it in the arch of the sun as it goes threw my woods in the back of my vegtable garden. Itsnext to a maple tree but the sun will hit the fruit tree as it comes around. I mixed up some rooting fertilizer I got last year from the nursery. I mixed it with soil, rain water and some rotted sawdust. I mixed it in with rain water and my hand to get it into the air voids and filled the hole up like that till I got to the top. Then a blanket of rotted horse manure and leaves to shield the sun. This is what the top looks like in the one picture. Do you think I should top it to one small branch?...See MoreWhat can I graft onto a old Cherry tree ???
Comments (6)I would suggest same as konrad -- cut branches way way back to about a foot from the trunk, allow new sprouts to come out of the "stumps" this season, then next spring try grafting some good tasting varieties to the sprouts. The tree will look goofy for a few years, but after 6 or 7 years it will look almost normal again and you'll have a great crop of great tasting cherries of whatever varieties you like. There are a lot of good online resources about how to do this. Look up stephenhayesuk on YouTube as I know he's got more than one video about "grafting over" an old tree (in his case it's with apples but the concept for cherries is the same)....See MorePlums and Pluots and bing cherry grafted on wild plum trees.
Comments (1)Glad to hear you had good luck, Tony. Scott...See Moreorganique
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